Lord of Rot

Chapter 244: Directly subsidizing development

"But regarding the power of the musket, I..." Kuai Ren hesitated.

"Power?" Li Qi turned around and waved to Carrot, who immediately took the breastplate that had been placed aside and tied it to the trunk of a tree.

Kuai Ren understood what Li Qi meant, and couldn't hide the anticipation in his eyes.

It depends on the power, just shoot it and you will know!

Li Qi quickly picked up the musket, loaded the gunpowder and projectiles, took aim, and then pulled the trigger.

The flint clamp struck the fire sickle violently.

White smoke rises.

"Oh!"

In other people's hands, the musket would like to jump into the sky, but in Li Qi's hands, it was honestly unremarkable and did not waver.

With his strength, this little counter-shock force is not enough to fear at all.

Before the thick smoke dissipated, Kuai Ren rushed out immediately.

He ran to the piece of wood that made up the armor and looked down at it.

There was a sunken crater in the armor, which had been penetrated by musketry.

Untie the armor tied to the tree trunk.

There was an obvious bullet hole in the trunk.

Although the bullet hole was much shallower than when there was no armor protection, and half of the projectile was even exposed, he dug it lightly with his fingers and the projectile fell out.

But it is difficult for ordinary crossbows to penetrate the breastplate.

"hiss!"

The porcupine soldier's armor is not much worse than the knight's plate armor.

In other words, gone are the days when the knight can just put on a set of plate armor and gallop on the battlefield. Even more exaggeratedly, if a group of militiamen armed with muskets can kill and charge forward The noble knight!

Facing the charge may cost more than ten or twenty lives.

But the cost of a noble knight is more valuable than hundreds of militiamen!

Li Qi looked at Kuai Blade and understood what he was thinking now. He wanted to directly dominate the battlefield with the power of the musket.

But... it's a pity.

After the magic tide emerged, advanced combat capabilities emerged one after another, and more and more creatures were not afraid of guns.

The musket is not to help the porcupine leader rule the battlefield.

But to prevent them from being abandoned on the battlefield.

Of course, if Li Qi could develop large-caliber weapons, the situation might not be as bad as he thought.

But magic is the main theme.

After seeing the power of muskets again, the soldiers couldn't put it down.

Li Qi had two requirements for soldiers.

First, he can shoot.

Secondly, the close combat ability also needs to be trained to ensure one's survival.

In other words, it can be used as a long-range musketeer, but the most important thing is its melee capability.

It is said that militiamen can fight with guns, but militiamen are only militiamen after all. They can fight with the wind going, but if the wind goes against them, they will be frightened into losing their armor.

The combat effectiveness that systematically trained soldiers can exert cannot be compared to that of ordinary militiamen.

Muskets can be used at long range, but when it comes to hand-to-hand combat at close range, the militiamen are destined to be massacred one-sidedly.

It's not just the infantry training.

Cavalry training is also proceeding in an orderly manner.

The current cavalry has just established a pretty good friendship with the horse with the help of Pitts. They can ride the horse for a walk, but if they want to drive quickly without being thrown off and ride on the battlefield flexibly, they still need to It takes a long time to train.

According to Li Qi's plan, after the preliminary training of the cavalry is completed, they will also be arranged to use muskets on horseback.

……

It's the end of the year.

Li Qi gave the entire Porcupine Ridge a day off.

There was a bonfire party for killing chickens and pigs, and Li Qi even asked Grant in advance to contact his daughter to bring the team to the Porcupine to lead the performance again.

It can be regarded as fulfilling Grant's wish to see his daughter.

Grant was very moved by the lord's decision. In order to repay Li Qi, he dragged Li Qi to stay in the city hall for a whole morning!

During this morning, Grant took various compiled report materials, made a year-end summary to Li Qi, and began to formulate future plans.

The development of the porcupine collar is obvious to all.

From being unable to eat last year, to this year more than 2,000 people can have enough food and clothing, factories are being built one after another, and even docks are not far away from being completed, completely eradicating poverty.

Just the number of soldiers is comparable to the entire population of the Porcupine Territory last year.

However, one thing Li Qi didn't expect was that this year Li Qi's total pocket income was 50 gold days.

"Did something go wrong?" he asked after a moment of silence.

"No, sir," Grant said while holding the information: "This does not include the part of your own money to build the factory. Although our porcupine wine, soap, and honey are all making money, but building equipment for more than two hundred soldiers , we spent all the money we earned this year on buying war horses, building houses and factories, paving roads, paying people wages, and realizing the exchange of work points for slaves.”

“If you’re going to add a fleet of heavy plows for spring plowing, you’re also going to need money to buy cattle.”

Most of the money was spent on the treasures Li Qi got in the headland crypt.

"In other words, the last 50 gold days are not mine?"

Money comes quickly and is spent quickly.

On the surface, Li Qi only made 50 gold days, but in fact, he was just giving money to develop the entire territory.

But at least the territory has developed. As long as it continues to operate, the territory will definitely bring greater benefits.

Looking at it this way, it is faster to make money by sweeping crypts and grabbing money. Just dig into crypts and you can continue to develop the territory for a while. If you just rely on the porcupine leader to make money and then subsidize the development, I am afraid that the porcupine leader will not be able to say that it is now. After building a factory, building a house, and living in a new house, even the slaves' exchange of work points can overwhelm him.

"The territory does not need so many slaves." Li Qi said: "Next year, all of them will be turned into serfs and let them farm the land!"

At least the serf does not need work points, can be self-sufficient, and it also allows him to spend less money.

And food supply is indeed a big problem, and more people are needed to farm.

He didn't want to spend a lot of money buying food for the winter at the end of each year.

The comedy troupe came, and Grant's reporting work came to an end, and he happily went to see his daughter.

Li Qi stood at the door of the city hall, and a gust of cold wind blew in, which made him feel more energetic.

The male and female servants also put on new clothes on this day. After getting Li Qi's permission, the butler Simon reluctantly let them go for a vacation.

Akeke also went home to spend time with his father and brothers.

Betty is working on dynamite.

Thomas scholars are still studying the magic scrolls diligently, and have unknowingly pulled out a lot of hair.

Kuai Ren had already taken Crow and Qiao to drink.

Although it was a day off for everyone, everyone seemed busier than usual.

It’s just that it’s blissful busyness.

After returning to the castle.

Li Qi lingered in the study for a long time, and finally found Pitts with a few letters.

"After you deliver these letters for me, you can go home and rest, Pitts."

"Yes, sir" Pitts happily took the letter.

She couldn't wait to go out and play with her little sisters.

"Send this letter to Donggang City." Li Qi handed one of the letters to Pitts and watched as she said a few words to the raven and the raven spread its wings and flew away.

Send a letter to Hongqiangwei to thank her for helping her business.

After all, relationships are all about constant contact.

The rest of the letters were sent to Greenwood Fort and Longship Fort.

After delivering the letter, Pitts turned to leave.

"Is this your human festival?" The brass dragon flew over and landed on Li Qi's shoulder.

"Isn't the dragon festive?"

Li Qi asked from a high place, looking at the porcupine collar.

"The giant dragon is too lazy to record the time," said the brass dragon, "but the human festival looks very good."

"This is a happy day to celebrate the end of the year," Li Qi said. "Let's go and take a stroll."